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A review by soovailyn
The Moon Dwellers by David Estes
3.0
Humanity digs into the earth and creates an underground world called the Tri-Realms. Democratic ideals fall astray as a class system is firmly put in place. The Tri-Realms is made up of three levels of caverns and tunnels dug into the ground. The first level is called Sun Realm. The place where the leaders, wealthy and powerful live in sinful luxury. The Moon Realm is the second level and make up most of the middle class work force. The Star Realm dwellers live in the deep, dark caves on the last level and barely survive in the worst conditions in almost complete darkness.
Tristan is the son of the current President and he despises everything that his father holds dear. During a publicity tour of the Moon Realm, pain stabs his brain when he looks into the eyes of a stranger. A girl with dark hair. Later, he finds out that her name is Adele.
She felt it too. An odd frisson of pain and complete awareness of him. The young man that everyone knows because he's the President's son. It doesn't make sense. Why would he hurt her? He doesn't even know her.
I'm a brat. I want to know more about why people ended up becoming ground moles. I want to know more about the class system, living arrangements and what makes things tick. Apparently, living underground has made life expectancy go down by about 20 years. Other than that, the slang is basically the same as 20th century and people don't seem to be different.
I like the clear setup of our dueling heroes: Adele and Tristan. Both of them are human and yet badass. However the situations that they are throwing themselves into willy-nilly and managing to get out of with very little effort is really hard to swallow. It's casually explained with a, "There must be someone helping. Why?" If that's suppose to be a lure to keep going, well dang it, okay.
Perhaps there needs to be more icky moments. It shouldn't be all sunshine and rainbows. It's the wreckage that makes you appreciate the simple things like having water to drink.
I find the narrators to be okay but rather inconsistent in how they portray & accent the different characters. In some ways, this reading would have been better if the two narrators recorded at the same time and had certain characters and narration to read rather than swapping chapters per POV change.
It's an interesting adventure story. A solid YA novel. I'm eager to see how the Mom turns out. Will she be like a hidden Athena/Xena?
Tristan is the son of the current President and he despises everything that his father holds dear. During a publicity tour of the Moon Realm, pain stabs his brain when he looks into the eyes of a stranger. A girl with dark hair. Later, he finds out that her name is Adele.
She felt it too. An odd frisson of pain and complete awareness of him. The young man that everyone knows because he's the President's son. It doesn't make sense. Why would he hurt her? He doesn't even know her.
I'm a brat. I want to know more about why people ended up becoming ground moles. I want to know more about the class system, living arrangements and what makes things tick. Apparently, living underground has made life expectancy go down by about 20 years. Other than that, the slang is basically the same as 20th century and people don't seem to be different.
I like the clear setup of our dueling heroes: Adele and Tristan. Both of them are human and yet badass. However the situations that they are throwing themselves into willy-nilly and managing to get out of with very little effort is really hard to swallow. It's casually explained with a, "There must be someone helping. Why?" If that's suppose to be a lure to keep going, well dang it, okay.
Perhaps there needs to be more icky moments. It shouldn't be all sunshine and rainbows. It's the wreckage that makes you appreciate the simple things like having water to drink.
I find the narrators to be okay but rather inconsistent in how they portray & accent the different characters. In some ways, this reading would have been better if the two narrators recorded at the same time and had certain characters and narration to read rather than swapping chapters per POV change.
It's an interesting adventure story. A solid YA novel. I'm eager to see how the Mom turns out. Will she be like a hidden Athena/Xena?